Description

The ultimate section of Banffyis trilogy displays the rapidly-disintegrating span of activities in Central Europe. In the forefront the lifestyles of Balint, with his fundamentally disappointed love for Adrienne, and his fatally mistaken relative, Laszlo Gyeroffy, who dies in poverty and neglect, are told with humor and a bitter sweet nostalgia for a paradise lost through folly. The menacing and fast paced activities in Montenegro, the Balkan conflicts, the obvious encirclement of Germany and Austria-Hungary by Britain, France and Russia, and eventually the assassination of Franz Ferdinand all lead inexorably towards the childhood of Hungary walking down for their demise and the dismemberment of the country.